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Building An Automated Video Encoding Pipeline In AWS (Graviton 2, Batch and ECS)

Last year on 11th May, Amazon launched their first 6th generation EC2 general-purpose instance, a.k.a “Graviton 2”, their next-generation Arm-based chip, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores. These processors boast up to 40% overall improvement on cost-performance ratio, compared to similar-sized M5 instances.

I’ve been meaning to build a “portable” video encoding pipeline for quite some time and this seemed like a good time and opportunity.

This whole CloudFormation template is available on my Github.

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HarperDB Cloud: What Else Could I Ask For?!

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It’s almost that time of the year where I randomly post a blog about something that excited me/caught my eye. And, this time, it’s HarperDB Cloud! What’s the new thing about it, you may think. As I mentioned in one of my blog post about 2 years ago (that you can literally see on the homepage.. pfft) that how much I appreciate someone Mixing NoSQL and SQL and giving something amazing.

I’ve enjoyed working with HarperDB and the idea of that level of flexibility over the last 2 years. But, it’s been a drag to set it up. Because:

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I’m Not Dead….Yet!

Hey!!! suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup?! I literally haven’t been able to follow up on anything in past 5 months, as I moved out of my shell (finally) and have been learning how to survive. I haven’t even updated people about my current status and what I’ve been up to for past few months. So, here I go everyone. I’ll probably list out things and then explain later about each and everyone of them * sigh *.

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HarperDB – Mixing SQL and NoSQL

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Earlier this year, in February (2018), HarperDB organized a Hackathon and thanks to that I found a database I had been looking for. By mixing the NoSQL with SQL, I now have a database that will let me scale easily, while still being able to use SQL (I love SQL for some reason).

You see, in my High School time, I had MySQL in our Java classes and the whole concept of Databases seemed amazing at that time and then operating with SQL queries seemed even more amazing and over the time, I’ve fallen in love with it. It is simple, fast and does a lot of things if you know your queries. Plus there’s Foreign Key concept, which I use in almost each and every project I work on. And the community is really great. So, if you’re stuck somewhere, you have a lot of people to ask for help.

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Comic-dl : A Little Python Script’s Journey

I have been itching to write this one since the past 2 months. But, unfortunately I’ve been too busy with the Hackathons, college projects, side projects, learning new things, binge watching stuff on Netflix and basically wasting a lot of time. “Comic-dl” is literally the project that I put my most pride in. Comic-dl is a command line program to download comics and manga from various websites. The idea isn’t something new or fresh or exciting or anything. It’s just that it is the updated version and covers a lot of sites now. Over the time, I’ve invested a lot of my time (not the spare time) in building comic-dl. Continue reading “Comic-dl : A Little Python Script’s Journey”

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New Delhi World Book Fair, 2018 – Jam-Packed Experience

I am not an avid Novel reader, though I do try to read a novel every 3 months. But, I’ve been going to New Delhi World Book Fair for past 3- 4 years regularly. It is one of the BEST place to buy novels for dirt cheap. Some are second hand, third hand and who knows how many owners these Novels have seen. But, they’re in pretty great shape. You can easily find a third hand Novel that looks as good as a freshly bought piece. Continue reading “New Delhi World Book Fair, 2018 – Jam-Packed Experience”